radoucir

French

Etymology

re- +‎ adoucir

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ʁa.du.siʁ/

Verb

radoucir

1. to sweeten
2. (figuratively, by extension) to appease

Conjugation

This is a regular verb of the second conjugation, like finir, choisir, and most other verbs with infinitives ending in -ir. One salient feature of this conjugation is the repeated appearance of the infix -iss-.

Conjugation of radoucir (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	radoucir
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	radoucissant /ʁa.du.si.sɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		radouci /ʁa.du.si/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	radoucis /ʁa.du.si/	radoucis /ʁa.du.si/	radoucit /ʁa.du.si/	radoucissons /ʁa.du.si.sɔ̃/	radoucissez /ʁa.du.si.se/	radoucissent /ʁa.du.sis/
	imperfect	radoucissais /ʁa.du.si.sɛ/	radoucissais /ʁa.du.si.sɛ/	radoucissait /ʁa.du.si.sɛ/	radoucissions /ʁa.du.si.sjɔ̃/	radoucissiez /ʁa.du.si.sje/	radoucissaient /ʁa.du.si.sɛ/
	past historic2	radoucis /ʁa.du.si/	radoucis /ʁa.du.si/	radoucit /ʁa.du.si/	radoucîmes /ʁa.du.sim/	radoucîtes /ʁa.du.sit/	radoucirent /ʁa.du.siʁ/
	future	radoucirai /ʁa.du.si.ʁe/	radouciras /ʁa.du.si.ʁa/	radoucira /ʁa.du.si.ʁa/	radoucirons /ʁa.du.si.ʁɔ̃/	radoucirez /ʁa.du.si.ʁe/	radouciront /ʁa.du.si.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	radoucirais /ʁa.du.si.ʁɛ/	radoucirais /ʁa.du.si.ʁɛ/	radoucirait /ʁa.du.si.ʁɛ/	radoucirions /ʁa.du.si.ʁjɔ̃/	radouciriez /ʁa.du.si.ʁje/	radouciraient /ʁa.du.si.ʁɛ/
(compound tenses)	present perfect	present indicative of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect	imperfect indicative of avoir + past participle
	past anterior2	past historic of avoir + past participle
	future perfect	future of avoir + past participle
	conditional perfect	conditional of avoir + past participle
subjunctive		que je (j’)	que tu	qu’il, qu’elle	que nous	que vous	qu’ils, qu’elles
(simple tenses)	present	radoucisse /ʁa.du.sis/	radoucisses /ʁa.du.sis/	radoucisse /ʁa.du.sis/	radoucissions /ʁa.du.si.sjɔ̃/	radoucissiez /ʁa.du.si.sje/	radoucissent /ʁa.du.sis/
	imperfect2	radoucisse /ʁa.du.sis/	radoucisses /ʁa.du.sis/	radoucît /ʁa.du.si/	radoucissions /ʁa.du.si.sjɔ̃/	radoucissiez /ʁa.du.si.sje/	radoucissent /ʁa.du.sis/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	radoucis /ʁa.du.si/	—	radoucissons /ʁa.du.si.sɔ̃/	radoucissez /ʁa.du.si.se/	—
compound		—	simple imperative of avoir + past participle	—	simple imperative of avoir + past participle	simple imperative of avoir + past participle	—
1 The French gerund is usable only with the preposition en.
2 In less formal writing or speech, these tenses may be found to have been replaced in the following way: past historic → present perfect past anterior → pluperfect imperfect subjunctive → present subjunctive pluperfect subjunctive → past subjunctive (Christopher Kendris [1995], Master the Basics: French, pp. 77, 78, 79, 81).

Further reading

• “radoucir”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.